Have I said that? I do despise the the motivation, but that does not detract from the cold facts.
elucubra
joined 2 years ago
I dunno? Freedom?
around the part of town where there are nightclubs, alone, at night
Aren't we a wee opinionated and with fascist tendencies? Surprising how you defend some groups freedom but deny others.
As someone who deals with ergonomics as part of his job I KNOW there is a problem.
I think you may have anger issues. If that is the case (I'm not trained to diagnose) you may want to explore professional attention.
I could go on a flame war over "it takes zero effort not to be a pedantic but also ignorant ass just for the sake of it." as an answer to a civilized, reasoned comment, but I don't want this place to be Reddit. Insults really detract from your argument.
You could have stopped at dumbest. I believe I'm making a civil and reasonable comment.
Also, a black and white contrast is objectively more un-equivocal than a flurry of colors. For example, my mother, in her 80's is a surprisingly safe driver for her age, but her visual acuity is just not the same as before, and at night she may have trouble with a rainbow.
You may agree that "cost, quality, and convenience" are pretty damn desirable.
I do agree, and kind of miss, the anticipation for a record release, the listening to the radio (in my case the quality non-commercial programs, think BBC, NPR, and their equivalents) with the finger on the record button, the wonder of buying a new LP, and poring over the jacket, and the occasional included booklet, flipping through records at the store,and many other cool aspects, but I stand by the vastly increased quality and durability.
If you want the rituals (save the fucking chore and expense of cleaning records), CDs are a pretty nice compromise. Tactile, mainly manual, choice of playing linearly, as many artists intended, possibility of programming or shuffling, high quality, and many other choices. With records and even worse, cassettes, you are stuck with the artifacts introduced by a bad medium and bad equipment. Want "warmth"? get a decent tube amp. Better yet, build from as kit. Great experience, and if you want control over sound, buy and learn to use a proper equalizer.
I may have been one of the lucky. With all it's warts, the 80's, for many young people, were a banger. Sort of the final bang of the 60's and 70's. Perfect? Nowhere near, but the music, social, artistic, and so many other aspects, were pretty damn cool, and for the young crowd it was mainly what mattered. Things like the fall of the Berlin wall, the perceived end of the end of the cold war and the nuclear Armageddon threat gave us a sense of optimism. Looking back there are things, like the Reagan/Thatcher tandem, that were setting the stage to the neo-liberal clusterfuck we live in, but our focus was elsewhere.
In Europe, most "worker's " parties have become center with a tiny dash of left for "color". The sad thing is that real left parties are musty old "real" socialism parties, either populist or tankies.
What we need is a "fourth way" of politics, a system that makes billionaires impossible, that fosters public services, including housing, cares for the needy, etc, but also promotes entrepreneurship, taxes progressively, guards society against the excesses of capitalism, etc.
Planned economies defininitely don't work.
Have you read the comment? My reply does not allude to content, but to the insult. Part of my job is ergonomics. I'm stating a fact. That there has not been a casualty yet, does not invalidate my point.